Calls Link Pub Owner to Omagh Blast, Police Say
A mobile phone used by an IRA splinter group that planted a bomb in the town of Omagh three years ago belonged to the only defendant charged in the devastating Northern Ireland attack, a police witness told Ireland’s anti-terrorist court.
On the second day of the Dublin trial of Colm Murphy, a pub owner charged with conspiring to cause explosions in Northern Ireland, a senior detective testified that police seized two mobile phones and phone bills during a 1999 raid on Murphy’s home.
Detective Thomas Flannery said technical experts determined that one of the phones was used in Omagh when the 300-pound car bomb was being planted.
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